#roxxon

[artworkmartins]

#Earth199 — Robie Baldwin's kinetic powers have made him famous!. As Speedball, he is the star of a popular Roxxon TV show with his girlfriend Screwball, performing wild, often risky heroic acts for a huge audience!

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Ghost Rider #36 (June, 1979) Art by Bob Budiansky

[artbyblastweave]

The advantage of Roxxon at Marvel is that having a really well established Evil Megacorporation in the wider lore means that when you want to do a plot beat involving an Evil Corporation you can append some variant of the name "Roxxon" to whatever the Evil Business is and immediately signal to your audience the kind of story that they're looking at. The downside is that if Roxxon has it's fingers in every single pie, it starts to create the impression that if someone could just get off their asses and kill all those bastards at Roxxon we could just be done with all of this shit, whereas in reality there are of course many Roxxons, mostly Roxxons. One of those things where I think you've gotta meet 'em halfway in terms of the specific story that they're telling, and just write your own thing if you wanna put the screws to the worldbuilding

[rei-ismyname]

TFW an Iron Man comic has better Krakoa continuity than the X-books

Tony is dealing with the aftermath of Feilong and ORCHIS acquiring his company, with most of the board being his appointees. Obviously not happy about the Stark Sentinels situation. Jesus, he even calls back to 'where were you when our babies were burning?'

Feilong again, and the explicit mention of anyone working for ORCHIS being a collaborator. A lot of AIM joined ORCHIS and they've learnt from the experience of being junior partners.

Emma Frost shows up too while he's being magically assaulted, and their situationship/alliance actually feels like a recent thing. It matters.

It's done in a way that's self explanatory and doesn't require having read a single Krakoan issue. It's really not that hard, but the X-Men books aren't really trying to achieve it. I'm getting used to that, but seeing an Iron Man book of all things pull it off smoothly I just shake my head.

ALSO, West Coast Avengers featured Firestar truly struggling nearly a year on from the end of her undercover stint at ORCHIS. Of course she's a mess! She had the toughest job of anyone and she did it so well she fooled everyone but Night Thrasher. Six months of constant anxiety and exposure to atrocity rewires your brain. These 3 panels tell us so much about where she's at and the support she's not getting. Angelica has always been more Avengers-affiliated than X-Men, so it's understandable it's here instead of there - but this highlights what FTA is dropping the ball on. I get a clearer and more genuine picture of trauma than Wolverine's sulking in the woods or Cyclops' panic attack.

Tearing down the Krakoan era itself is banal, good stories are about people.

[comicbookhyperfixationtime]

Based Based Based!!!!

YASS KING. GO OFF! The final villain of Immortal Thor is literally late stage capitalism and I am so for this killing a CEO is literally the hottest thing Thor could do right now.

Immortal Thor (2023) #8

[heckcareoxytwit]

Dario Agger takes Thor on a tour in a fake estate under the Roxxon biodome meant for the rich or privileged customers in case of an apocalypse. Also, Amora the Enchantress and Skurge the Executioner are there (though the latter is disguised as a laborer). Along the way, Thor is attacked by Skurge the Executioner who drops his disguise. Thor tries to fight but he gets punched out of the biodome and he crashes through the window, causing him to fall off the building. When Thor comes back to Roxxon building to fight Skurge, he gets blasted by Amora the Enchantress. Then, Thor is taken back to Roxxon biodome where he wanders around disoriented while Amora watches him from the lawn chair. When Thor demands for answers, Dario Agger gloats before attacking the thunder god from behind. Thor is forced to settle down when Dario shows him a comic book as well as Amora gaslighting him.

Immortal Thor #9, 2024

[avengerscompound]

ROXXON Corporation throughout the MCU

[lilydvoratrelundar]

"'Art.' "I never liked that word. "I prefer 'content' "It's so efficient. It's the unit of product to be sold... and the feeling you're selling with it. "In such an anxious world... "... Who doesn't want to be content? "Are you content now, Thor?"

Immortal Thor (2023-) #9 by Al Ewing and Ibrahim Robertson: ‘The Land of Lost Content’